Of today’s younger celebrities, let’s say under 30, who will someday be doing commercials for denture cream, adult diapers, Life Alert and funeral pre-planning?
Yep…can’t wait to see Justin Bieber plugging adult depends on cable TV. Pat Boon pushed adult bathtubs, and Fred Thompson pushes funeral funding plans-so yes, when you are old, but still have some name recognition, you can make a few bucks selling to the senior set.
I don’t know who will reach that point, but whoever does, especially the women are going to look scary as hell.
We were all freaked out by the plastic surgery that Michael Jackson had and Joan Rivers looks nothing like her younger self with a face that doesn’t move. Now I’m seeing women celebrities/ fame whores in their 20’s & 30’s who are already well aboard the plastic surgery train.
If Lindsey Lohan survives that long, what will she look when she’s 60 or 70? A lot worse than Jocelyn Wildenstein the cat lady? I noticed in recent pictures, Kim Kardasian is getting the botox face and duck lipped thing. Is that even safe during pregnancy?
Sorry, don’t mean to derail this thread, I’m just picturing a slew of past their prime celebs doing infomercials for the newest face cream with cheek implants, paralyzed facial muscles and whatever crazy trend is happening in plastic surgery 50 years from now. It won’t be pretty.
The problem is, who are the “celebrities”?
Just like every person who has ever been in a porn is suddenly a porn “star”, it seems like every clown who has ever appeared, even fleetingly, on some half-ass reality show is now pretending to be a “celeb”.
I must be way out of the loop, but it seems about 25% of all guests on daytime or late night talk shows are totally unknown to me. They will introduce someone to thunderous applause and I haven’t a clue who the hell that person is.
Some obscure member of a sports team, a photo model from Sports Illustrated on page 12 of the Swimsuit Edition, a one-hit-wonder country or hip hop star, some housewife from a housewives show, an actor on some kids show on the CW channel, a contestant that got booted in episode three of some reality survivor/dance/amazing adventure show, a cat that was in a YouTube video that went viral - these are all “celebrities”?
Here in Las Vegas, they actually pay “celebrities” to show up at nightclubs - not to perform or do anything, they pay them just to show up - and they will have ads in the Las Vegas Weekly magazine announcing they will be there. I guess people get all excited about being in the same room as so-and-so and gazing as that person drinks booze in the VIP section. I love looking at those ads as I seriously do not know 95% of the names…usually some wannabe singer/model/TV reality show contestant.
The old expression of “your 15 minutes of fame” is quickly becoming “your 3 minutes of fame” due to the fact that now you really don’t have to do anything to become super rich and famous. The Kardashians (who I still am not all that sure who the hell they are are why they are famous) have taken this to a new level. They make Paris Hilton’s fame almost seem worthy in comparison.
We’re not going to know for quite a while. Most older celebrities who do commercials have had some measure of recognition in their later years. Otherwise why be there at all? So it will be the ones who remain in the public’s mind and who have reputations that appeal to the particular markets of particular products.
It also depends a lot on who is (or will be) wise enough to save and/or invest their money wisely and will have the nest egg to avoid doing ad spots like that. Because let’s face it, no matter how vain any star can be, nobody wants to be starring in an ad for denture cream or adult diapers. They do the spots because they desperately need the cash.
Well-known open secret - you ever notice how formerly popular bands get back together about 18 - 20 years after their band broke up acrimoniously? The band members will speak of “time healing wounds, and how they felt they owed it to their devoted fans to get back together again.” No, usually it’s because all the band members have kids who are about to enter college, and the band members need to get tuition money!
I’d suggest one, but She Who Must Not Be Named is worse than Beetlejuice. He required his name be spoken three times in the invocation while she needs only one. :eek: